MIAMI, February 8, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) - In what could become a landmark decision, a Florida judge has ruled that a 23-month-old girl can have three people listed on her birth certificate as her parents.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Antonio Marin approved a settlement between a lesbian couple, Maria Italiano and Cher Filippazzo, who were legally "married" in Connecticut, and Massimiliano Gerina, a homosexual who donated sperm for Italiano to become pregnant.

Under Florida law, a sperm donor for artificial insemination has no paternity rights.

However, Gerina claimed that in the verbal agreement he entered into with the lesbian couple when they asked him for his sperm thathe assumed he would be able to participate in the life of the child he fathered.

“They asked me,” Gerina told The Miami Herald. “I was flattered by it. I thought what a great opportunity for me to have a baby.”

The women, he claimed, “wanted a father for the baby, not just the sperm.”

Two weeks after being artificially inseminated with Gerina's sperm, Italiano learned she was pregnant. The lesbians planned that Filippazzo would adopt the baby and they would both raise the child under the designation of "parent 1" and "parent 2."

About seven months into her pregnancy, Gerina said the women called him and asked him to sign a contract relinquishing any rights to the child.

“When they gave me the paper to sign that I had to give up all my rights to the baby, I didn’t,” Gerina said.

“My papers said I would have parental rights, a visitation schedule,” Gerina said. “They hated it. They said this wasn’t what they wanted. I said, ‘Now that you’re already pregnant, you should have thought about that before.’ ”

“The paternity lawsuit was filed right after the birth of the child,” said Gerina's lawyer, Karyn J. Begin. Emma was born March 10, 2011.

A trial was set for January 31. However, a week before the hearing the lesbian couple and the homosexual father settled their dispute privately.

With Judge Marin's approval, Filippazzo has legally adopted Emma, and she, with birth mother Italiano, now have "sole parental responsibility" for the little girl.

Judge Marin ordered that the state recognize Gerina as the father and grant him twice-weekly visitation rights.

“We’re creating entirely new concepts of families," said Begin.

"If you have two women seeking to be listed as Parent One and Parent Two, that does not exclude listing a man as father,” she said. "There are three parties involved. I agree that makes the case unique."

The lesbian couple's lawyer, Kenneth Kaplan, said, "People have to understand, the case is really a second-parent adoption, meaning that there are not three equal parents.”

"There are three involved but there are two people who have sole parental responsibility," Kaplan said. "Under Florida law, they make all the decisions for the child. This is an adoption by two women, with him receiving certain rights."

“The mothers are in charge," said Gerina. "They are the parents, I’m just going to spend time with her.”

I can barely imagine the difficulty this kid will have relating to her peers-she will be a walking case study of an emotionally screwed up child. And if her mother divorces her lesbian partner, does parent 3/father get to bid for custody? This kid was a pawn before she was even born...

Here's a thought to make you feel better. Imagine a scene, say 14-15 years from now. Emma comes into the kitchen where all three of her parents are sitting. Emma: "Mom, Dad, Mom. I have to tell you something. I think I'm straight."

Dressed in a white dress, a veil and pink flowers in her hair, Tendler got down on one knee on the dock and gave Cindy a kiss. And a piece of herring.

"It's not a perverted thing. I do love this dolphin. He's the love of my life," she said yesterday, upon her return to London.Tendler, who said she imports clothes and promotes rock bands in England, has visited Israel several times a year since first meeting the dolphin.

When asked in the past if she had a boyfriend, she would always reply, "No. I'm going to end up with Cindy." Read More

The "wedding" took place in December 2005. In June 2006, Cindy died.

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posted on 02/08/2013 2:50:51 PM PST
by NYer
("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)

The “wedding” took place in December 2005. In June 2006, Cindy died.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Did it take 6 mos for the Dolphin to die of shame, not really understanding the fiasco it was involved in.

Did the Dolphin have a lawyer?

Was the marriage consummated?

HAVE WE GONE MAD?

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posted on 02/08/2013 3:08:29 PM PST
by xrmusn
(6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")

Destroy the family, and civlization is destroyed. This, folks, is what "Gay Rights" is meant to acheive - utter destruction of human civilization. You think I'm exaggerating? I am not. Human civilization is built upon the family unit. Three sexual perverts and a pet baby is NOT A FAMILY. Both lists because every one of us is or will be affected by this screaming nosedive into utter chaos. Because the majority of us - the normal, rational, moral human beings - are repelled and horrified by perversion and that children who are destroyed in the process, the homo nazi agenda must be FORCED upon everyone. Hate speech, hate crimes and punishment of everyone not surrendering to the homonazi agenda is rolling forward.

Anyone who wants on/off either ping list, freepmail me.

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posted on 02/08/2013 3:20:39 PM PST
by little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

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posted on 02/08/2013 3:58:28 PM PST
by DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)

There are a lot of us who understand and have vocalized that normalization of homosexual and other aberrant behavior simply invites and legitimatizes more radical and bizarre behavior which is then pushed as normal and legitimate as well.

Bigamy. Poligamy. Bestiality. People saying that their relationship with an animal is equal in standing because it is “love”. How long will it be before a sex toy is accepted as a legitimate partner which would entitle the human side to some kind of benefit? (Crazy concept, never happen...)

And so on.

I hate it when I am right.

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posted on 02/08/2013 4:21:43 PM PST
by rlmorel
(1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)

this is trying to get around state law and the states marriage law.
Next it will be :”well they are the parents and we should be married”

This judge is probabaly another raving loon liberal socialist homosexual and yet again we see children being used as pawns and being given a screwed up future and then the left on the likes of MSNBC cry about suicides going up on young kids today

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